Improvement in devices for detaching horses



l. L. LANDIS. Devices for Detaching Horses.

N0, 146,920. Patentedlan.27,1874.

INVENTOR M 4 (7 Malawi B Attorneys.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISRAEL L. LANDIS, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR DETACHING HORSES. I

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,920, dated January 27, 1874; application filed January 2, 1874.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsRAEL L. LANDIs, of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Device for Detaching Horses; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a device for detaching horses from vehicles, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operati0n,referrin g to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is.a plan "iew of a whiffle or single tree embodying my invention. Fig.2 is a side view of one end of the same; and Fig. 3 is an cnl. rged perspective view of the ferrule at the end of the whiftletree.

A represents the ordinary whiftlctree or end, and the two holes being on a line with a hole in the end of the pin 0. G represents a leather strap passing throughtwo eyes, d d, on top of the whiffletree, a suitable distance from each end. The ends of the strap G are each split or divided into two parts, h and h.

The part h is passed through the slots at a in the ends of the plate D, and has a knot, 41-, tied on its end to prevent it being withdrawn from said plate. hen the trace is placed on the pin 0, the part h is drawn in between the two ends of the plate D, substantially as shown in Fig. 2, after which the part h is passed through the holes I) b in the plate, and the hole in the pin 0 thereby holding the trace on the pin. To the center of the strap G is attached another strap, G, which is to pass into the vehicle, so as to be within easy reach of the driver. By pulling on this strap G the ends of the strap G are drawn inward, the parts h passing out of the holes in the pins 0, and the parts 71, being pulled straight, force the traces outward off from said pins, thus quickly and effectively detaching the horse from the vehicle.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is+

1. The plate D, attached to and forming part of the ferrule B, and having its ends bent outward and provided with slots a and holes b, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination,with a single-trce,A,.

ISRAEL L. LANDIS.

Witnesses A. N. MAnR, E. MoB. TIMONEY. 

